The currency of higher education in America
I winced reading today’s Inside Higher Ed column by Arthur Levine and hoped for a second that someone was impersonating him. I checked it against my Higher Education Commentary Bingo Card: bubble industrial society dinosaur unchanging decrepit distracted digital native dumbest generation swirling millennial generation seat-time anytime/anyplace Free (by Chris Anderson) mobile or ubiquitous learning […]
The teacher jobs bill is still needed and sensible
Rick Hess’s blog continues to be interesting and well-written, and while he is out of the country, he’s recruited as substitute bloggers two of the new generation of political scientists focusing on education, Patrick McGuinn and Paul Manna. They have been a welcome addition to the field, and I look forward to what they have […]
Remedial/development education, required reading
If you’re interested in community-college remedial/developmental programs and you haven’t yet, go read an excellent feature by Bill Maxwell that appeared last Sunday in the St. Petersburg Times Perspective section. Because it’s in the paper’s opinion section, Maxwell is free to add his judgment, but for the most part this is just a good feature, […]
Why is a college education like a tulip bulb?
Dean Dad has one plausible response to the latest installation of the “college is the next asset bubble to burst” argument, and every time I come across it I grind my teeth, think of ravens and writing desks, and go on. At least Glenn Reynolds is neither an economist nor an historian, or I’d accuse […]
Of side deals, soup and sandwich, and prayers
A few days ago, the St. Petersburg Times uploaded all of the second-round RTTT local MOUs in Florida they had been able to acquire to one of the relevant blog entries, so I can talk about the elements that are common among them. First, a mea culpa: when reading the Broward document on Safari, the […]